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Airbase lesson 004: Warping in under 60 seconds

I've seen a few tutorials on youtube on how to warp. The problem is that many of them are completely wrong. With dance music, your tracks are almost always exactly synced when it comes to tempo. That makes it very very easy to warp. Here's a short video showing how you do it in under 60 seconds. Presented in 720p using Ableton Live 7

Head over to http://www.airbasemusic.com then go to the menu Community and click Tutorials

If you like them, I'll keep posting them. Feel free to suggest things you want me to do tutorials on at my website.

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Yes. Awesome.

Another solid tutorial. I used to waste a lot of time with warping tracks when I was starting out and this would have been incredibly useful to me.

If you use any "global" effects with sends/returns in your tracks I wouldn't mind seeing a tutorial for that as it's something I want to start utilizing.

AN additional note on this one, be sure to always check the middle of the track as well and possibly set a few warp markers there as well. Sometimes certain tracks will have slight waverings in tempo, although this is less of a problem in the digital age. For example, I noticed that Prydz Proper Education has some strange tempo variations in the middle of the track. I usually set 3 to 4 warp markers per track, usually around the breaks, just to be sure nothing gets out of time.

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Originally posted by Airbase With dance music, your tracks are almost always exactly synced when it comes to tempo. That makes it very very easy to warp.

QFT

I can blast through most tunes in about 30 seconds.

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Originally posted by Beatflux QFT I can blast through most tunes in about 30 seconds.

slow.

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Originally posted by Eric J AN additional note on this one, be sure to always check the middle of the track as well and possibly set a few warp markers there as well. Sometimes certain tracks will have slight waverings in tempo, although this is less of a problem in the digital age. For example, I noticed that Prydz Proper Education has some strange tempo variations in the middle of the track. I usually set 3 to 4 warp markers per track, usually around the breaks, just to be sure nothing gets out of time.

I found the same thing with Babicz purple dance. Not sure what causes it...

Might not be related, but the web was full with vinyl rips a few years ago, and those could be a bit dodgy due to tiny errors in the vinyls or just a badly rotating turntable. These days, when most dance music is purchased digitally or on CD, that problem shouldn't occur...

A good rule of thumb is that if Ableton only puts down one yellow marker when it auto warps, the tracks have a steady tempo, you only need to do the adjustments I showed in this tutorial, no additional yellow markers should be needed.

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Originally posted by Airbase Might not be related, but the web was full with vinyl rips a few years ago, and those could be a bit dodgy due to tiny errors in the vinyls or just a badly rotating turntable. These days, when most dance music is purchased digitally or on CD, that problem shouldn't occur...

Not sure that that was the problem in this case, not really sure what it was... But I got it sorted anyway, just took a bit of work.

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A good rule of thumb is that if Ableton only puts down one yellow marker when it auto warps, the tracks have a steady tempo, you only need to do the adjustments I showed in this tutorial, no additional yellow markers should be needed.

I don't really find that to be true. ableton always puts too many markers, especially in tracks with long breakdowns. usually I just let ableton make a guess at the tempo, check first beat, 16th bar, final bar. and that does it. usually the BPM will be a whole number, very rarely it'll have a decimal place, so thats another good way to check 9/10 times... It can be bad though when the BPM is detected perfectly, but the actual start marker is an 8th off... Hard to notice and makes for a trainwreck of hideous proportions.

Dude I'm loving your tutorials. The vocal chop one was great.

Keep posting them!

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